Sanded, primer and painted while weather was clear today.
Sanded hood and fenders with 400 sandpaper before green coat.
The newspaper is covering an area of black I spray painted a few weeks ago that will be covered by grill.
Let first coat of green dry for an hour then did a second coat.
I will do the final clear coat later this week.
Time to order my decals soon.
The front bumper and grill I sprayed with dark grey and then a final clear coat.
Also riveted the back assembly onto the motocross harness.
Finalized the PVC frame for left boot, and then started measuring and cutting vinyl panels to rivet onto frame.
Also did a test walk around wearing both boots assembled with frame and wheels.
This side panel on boot frame I had to use two pieces side by side and rivet together.
This will get riveted directly to PVC frame after painted.
The back panels turned out great with final clear coat.
I went with the dark grey color for the boot panels.
Started the left boot PVC frame this past weekend.
Amazingly it went pretty fast for one day, also spray painted the fender shroud in a primer coat.
The left boot repair I did earlier this year did not hold up, had to redo the rivets with support washers.
All day Saturday I worked on trying to finalize the PVC frame support around boots.
Many alterations and testing walks wearing boot, also to mention getting it on and off procedure.
I had to make the wheel fixed in place for mounting purposes.
More than half of the entire shroud weight around the boot is heavy to one side, so I had to affix the PVC frame directly to boot in order to balance it.
So far the entire assembly has a few pieces that completely remove to get my foot in and out of boot.
The lower bracket holds most of the weight of frame balance, and also an upper screws directly through boot into the PVC.
First the tire mount bracket connects...
Then a PVC frame connects to tire bracket in addition to a lower PVC coupling.
Last piece is a connector pipe that slides through PVC couplings to secure frame.
Because of off-balance weight during alterations, I made a simple wood block stand that helped a lot.
The cardboard cutouts are for measuring the outer covers, not sure yet if I am going to use vinyl sheet board or just thin storage bin plastic.
Heroes-con Charlotte 2015 was amazing.
Huge event, reminded me of San Diego Comic Con when it started running at the Marriott Convention Center.
Rows of Artists alley's and vendors.
Found some good collectible Transformer figures.
Had a lot of compliments on Prowl suit.
Massive turn out for cosplay at Heroes-Con, a lot of great costumes, it was awesome.
We already purchased tickets for next year.
Back assembly is near to completion.
Majority of parts have final paint and clear coat.
Riveted finalized painted parts to back bracket.
Temp attached tire to back assembly to see what final result will show.
Did my best to match spray paint to the green storage bin plastic.
Finished fitted the pieces under the chest fenders.
I pre-cut the shapes with cardboard, then use that as a template when cutting storage bin plastic.
Warm the pieces with heat gun, clamp in place while trimming to fit, mark and drill holes for rivets, let pieces cool while held in place with rivets.
These pieces will be riveted on last, after the final outer spray paint and clear coat is applied.
Decided to use a larger funnel for headlights.
Had to cut out more of grill for new funnel size.
Going to look for a mirror reflective sheet to cut and line the inside of funnels.
